Goldsworthy work at Hess

The Bay Area public knows of British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy through public commissions such as his cracked stone pathway into the de Young Museum and his recent "Spire" of reclaimed trunks of fallen cypresses in the Presidio and his serpentine "River of Stone" at Stanford.

The Hess Art Museum at the Hess Collection Winery in Napa has just unveiled a permanent indoor work by Goldsworthy, titled "Surface Tension" (pictured). An ad hoc lattice improvised by the artist from chestnut leaf stalks joined with thorns, the work forms a floor-to-ceiling curtain barring entry to the space behind it. It appears to be drawn on thin air.

The new Goldsworthy project celebrates the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Hess Art Museum, a growing collection of international contemporary art, where admission is free. For information: (707) 255-1144 or www.hesscollection.com/art.

Diebenkorn faculty fellow chosen at S.F. Art Institute

A temporary faculty appointment instituted by the family of Bay Area painter and Art Institute alumnus Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993), the fellowship also provides a $25,000 stipend and studio space for the recipient at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

McCarty is known most for large ballpoint pen and graphite portrait drawings of people involved with sex crimes, as perpetrators or victims. The drawings attempt to reflect on family dynamics under the pressures of a wider culture overtly sexualized but covertly perverse.